Cunc, as I understand it, you have three points to your argument:
1. it's a disruption
2. it's a minor fix to a larger problem
3. why should the largest wikipedia have to move anyway?
1 has been adressed earlier. we've moved domain name before.
2 -- yes, I agree. The problem is larger than this. But this is a
significant move. Like mav said, it's *symbolic*. it's not the solution,
but it's part of it. It shows that the other languages are siblings --
younger siblings, yes, -- but not subordinates.
I fear I cannot answer point 3. I seems to me to stem from a
fundamentally different view of life. But I trust that should the German
Wikipedia ever grow larger than the English, you will be in favour of it
acquiring the coveted www. domain, with the English being demoted to en: ?
Anyway, if we're talking numbers, we should save www. for the Chinese
Wikipedia ;-)
An older post of yours says:
More effort should be put into building the cross-link
capabilities,
perhaps with some automatic dictionary translations.
Yes. But please please please can we drop this idea of "automatic
dictionary translations". Try it sometime. Computers cannot translate.
The Cunctator wrote:
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:00, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:40 am, The Cunctato
wrote:
On 10/10/02 6:41 PM, "Daniel Mayer"
<maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
<snip>
Granted the English Wikipedia is the oldest
and largest but it shouldn't be vaulted as /The Main/
Wikipedia with the other languages relegated to second
class status in The Main WIkipedia's shadow.
By the same token, the English-lang Wikipedia is the oldest and largest (by
far), and it shouldn't be shoved around simply for the sake of political
correctness.
? How is finally having the English Wikipedia at
en.wikipedia.org shoving
around the English Wikipedia? All the others are at
xx.wikipedia.org so this
isn't about political correctness, it is about what is fair and equal.
By writing "finally having" you imply inevitability. That certainly
isn't the case. One could also write "How is redirecting the
overwhelming preponderance of all Wikipedia entries shoving around the
English Wikipedia? A small percentage of entries are at
xx.wikipedia.org
so this isn't about political correctness, it is about what is fair and
equal (where equality means having every language group be given
equivalent URLs, even though that concept of equality ignores the gross
differences in the representation of the groups)."
By definition doing "what is fair and equal" for groups with unequal
representation is being politically correct. The Wikipedia entry
[[political correctness]] is pretty good.
Some acts of political correctness are good and necessary; but many aim
to solve important problems with surface changes, and this proposed act
is largely the latter.
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